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1888 York Sun: Election of 1888 york Sun. In 1888 york Sun, James G. Blaine, the Republican party's most prominent figure, declined to seek the presidential nomination. The national convention then nominated Harrison as the soldier-citizen who combined fitness with availability. The call came on the 8th ballot. Levi P. Morton, a New York City banker, received the vice-presidential nomination. Cleveland was renominated by the Democrats.
29. Photographic News, vol. 4 (1860), p. 13.
30. Ibid.
31. "Flashes from the Slums," The New York Sun, February
12, 1888 york Sun.* 32.Ibid.
33. Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives; Studies Among the Tenements of New York (New York: Charles Scrib-ner's Sons, 1890).
34. Jacob A. Riis, Children of the Poor (New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1892), pp. 77-82.
35. Quoted by Jean Adhemar, "Emile Zola, Photographer," in Van Deren Coke, ed., One Hundred Years of Photographic History (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975), p. 4.
36. Photo-Miniature, no. 21 (December 1900), p. 396.
37. Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian, 20 vols. plus 20 portfolios (New York: Published by the author, 1907-30).
In 1888 york Sun the New York Sun published twelve drav ings from his photographs with an article headline "Flashes from the Slums" and told how a mysterious party has lately been startling the toi o' nights. Somnolent policemen on the street, denizens of the dives in their dens, tramps and bummers in their so-called lodgings, and all the people of the wild and wonderful variety of New York night life have in their turn marvelled at and been frightened by the phenomenon.
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